Word: digestism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norman Mailer characterized the alienated delegates lusting for liberal blood at the 1964 convention. In a typical Mailer caricature, he evoked a "Wasp Mafia where the grapes of wrath were stored. Not for nothing did the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have a five-year subscription to Reader's Digest and National Geographic, high colonies and arthritis, silver-rimmed spectacles, punched-out bellies and that air of controlled schizophrenia which is the merit badge for having spent one's life on Main Street. Indeed, there was agreement that the war was between Main Street and Wall Street...
...Edelmann's concoctions, but the pervasive atmophere of warmed-over Milton Glaser. His Signet Shakespeare cover figures, Eye Magazine poster art, and advertising lay-out landscapes abound with stifling frequency, serving as the film's only visual leveller. The film purports to be innovative but is in reality a digest of today's kickiest commercial art on sale in various and provocative forms...
...read Barron's Business Weekly. "National Labor Relations Board Must Go," muses their September 23 front page. Not by chance did the same article appear in the Wall Street Journal, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Charlotte Observor, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Reader's Digest...
...Lewis Jr. and was senior editor of the Conservative Book Club. Research is handled by Ruth Matthews, widow of J. B. Matthews, the ex-fellow traveler who kept the House Un-American Activities Committee liberally supplied with names. Chief consultant is Eugene Lyons, a recently retired Reader's Digest senior editor who has written extensively on the Communist menace...
...needs to complete the remaining buildings on the 14-acre complex. "It is raising those last few millions that is the most difficult," says Board Chairman John D. Rockefeller III. But now to the financial rescue comes Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, 78, co-founder of the Reader's Digest. Her $1,000,000 gift to the Center is the fourth such contribution she has made to worthy organizations and causes in recent years. It will be used for the Center's Juilliard library, which will house a collection of music; drama and dance reference materials...